Concert of the Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra - The Ace of Aces

Théâtre de l'Odéon, 162 La Canebière

Beethoven is 30 when he composes his Symphony No. 1 at the dawn of a new century (1800). Still under Haydn’s tutelage and already very Beethoven-like, his brio, strength and drive leave everyone far behind. Brahms was past forty when he finally delivered his Symphony No. 1 after twenty years of effort. The fear of being compared to Beethoven was defeated; it is a masterpiece. Playfully, a conductor exclaims: “This is the Tenth!” Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21; Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor…